Jeannette Klute collection, 1949-2005 1949 - 1970.

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Jeannette Klute collection, 1949-2005 1949 - 1970.

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The Jeannette Klute collection contains photographs, print matrices, correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings and ephemera related to Klute's career as a photographer and Kodak employee specializing in the dye transfer process. The Jeannette Klute collection contains photographs, matrices and papers, including correspondence and published articles that document her work photographing and making dye transfer photographs. During a long career in the research labs at Eastman Kodak Company she tested and refined the difficult process and applied it to her own artistic work. Inspired by nature, Klute photographed plants in the Bristol, New York area as well as New England. Her series of dye transfer prints entitled "Woodland Portraits" received national attention in the 1950s and 60s.

18.5 linear feet (7 lid boxes, 2 file boxes, and 2 5.5 x 10" metal card file boxes)

RIT Library, Wallace Library

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RIT Library, Wallace Library

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New England Art Exhibition (1993 : Boston, Mass.)

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Rochester institute of technology

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It is unclear when the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) first admitted minority students. However, it appears as though the first African American students entered the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics Institute (renamed RIT in 1944) during the early 1900s. For instance, in 1906 Fredericka Sprague, the granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, took classes at the Institute. There are several other instances of African American students attending the school during the early 20th century as well...

Klute, Jeannette, 1918-

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Jeannette Klute (1918-2009) was born in 1918 in Rochester, N.Y. She graduated from high school in 1936 and attended the Rochester Athenaeum and Mechanics (later renamed RIT), where she studied photographic technology. She later attended the University of Rochester, where she graduated with a B.S. degree in general studies. Shortly after starting at RIT, she was hired at Eastman Kodak Company, where within a short time she transferred to the Research Laboratories. By 1945 she was head of the Visu...